The wide world web is weally wig. There is an almost unimaginable amount of content on the web for teachers that are interested in moving beyond what is in their student's textbooks. The problem, however, is that there are so many hours in the day, and it is not efficient for teachers to "surf" the web in search of educational nuggets. So how can a teacher find good stuff fast?
The good news: There are tools that you can use to generate a customized list of sites that your students can access that are relevant to your current unit. The bad news: The process is quick to use, but requires you to learn about some internet tools that you might not yet be aware of. These tools include an RSS Reader and a Social Bookmarking service.
To provide your students with a list of resources for a particular topics, you need to complete four steps:
1. Create a class website. - This is a place on the web that your students can go to access content that you find and choose to share with them. The site can include other resources, of course, including offering a place for students to show off their own work.
2. Set up an RSS Reader by subscribing to promising sites. Instead of surfing out to a collection of bookmarked websites, an RSS reader gathers short summaries of articles for you to preview and read at your convenience.
The good news: There are tools that you can use to generate a customized list of sites that your students can access that are relevant to your current unit.
The bad news: The process is quick to use, but requires you to learn about some internet tools that you might not yet be aware of. These tools include an RSS Reader and a Social Bookmarking service.
To provide your students with a list of resources for a particular topics, you need to complete four steps:
1. Create a class website. - This is a place on the web that your students can go to access content that you find and choose to share with them. The site can include other resources, of course, including offering a place for students to show off their own work.
2. Set up an RSS Reader by subscribing to promising sites. Instead of surfing out to a collection of bookmarked websites, an RSS reader gathers short summaries of articles for you to preview and read at your convenience.
3. Use a Social Bookmarking account to assign tags to articles that you want to share.
4. Embed an RSS feed for the tag you used to gather articles on a page in your wikispace.